Today I wanted to be fat. Not just chubby bunny fat but arctic polar bear fat. Its got to be warmer than winter nomex and would have been greatly appreciated today. It was cold, not just -20 cold but in the mid -30s with a wind chill.

My job lately has been to stand near the measuring equipment and keep it going. A typical hour is: drive to new location, do jumping jacks to restore feeling to fingers, try to connect box to cable, do more jumping jackes, get box connected and press start, run up and down line planting blue distance flags, do a few more jumping jacks, un-hook system. Repeat for 10 hours a day. Not that it takes much running or jumping to warm up once you put on full winter nomex, winter boots and a quad helmet. But man, its exhausting!